People Lay Into Amir Khan After He Asks If There's Ever Been A Female Prime Minister On 'I'm A Celebrity'

A professional boxer by trade, Amir Khan can be excused, some what, for not paying complete attention when it comes to current affairs.

Credit: ITV / I'm A Celebrity

But there's no excuse for what the former light-welterweight world champion came out with on I'm A Celebrity tonight, when he seems not to have been paying any attention at all.

The professional boxer unwittingly showed his ignorance as the group appointed a new camp Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister in the form of Stanley Johnson and Georgia 'Toff' Toffolo.

"Could a woman be prime minister? Has there ever been a woman prime minister?" Khan asked Stanley, oblivious to the fact that Theresa May, the UK's prime minister since June of last year, is indeed a woman.

Current PM Theresa May. Credit: PA

Oh dear, Amir. We understand that politics can be boring a lot of the time but he isn't helping himself with silliness like that.

As you'd expect, people were unrelenting in rinsing Khan on social media for his total lack of knowledge of who's running the country:

as IF Amir Khan just asked if the UKs has ever had a female prime minister . man needs to lay off getting punched for a very long time- katie (@kt_holl) November 26, 2017

To be fair, Amir realised his mistake, name-dropping the ex-PM Margaret Thatcher not long after. But still, the man needs to sort it out.

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Chris Ogden

Chris Ogden is a journalist at LADbible. He graduated from the University of East Anglia with degrees in English Literature and Creative Writing before completing his NCTJ Diploma in Multimedia Journalism. Chris has previously written for the independent culture magazine The Skinny, among other publications.

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